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Don’t forget to buy bread
Melizarani T.Selva Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 Each time I return from Singapore, my father looks at my hands first. They are hardly ever empty but my hands only matter when they are carrying the one item he pines for, longs for, dreams about and swears that Malaysia does not have. California Raisin Gardenia Bread.…
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Sock-coffee and Shoeshine
Theophilus Kwek Issue 4: TOAST, September 2025 Set A breakfast: Kaya toast, two soft-boiled eggs, coffee The lockdown had a way of making us dream of food. Hawker stalls and coffeeshops long faded into sepia-toned habit resurfaced in our minds with a vengeance, branded now as “essentials”. Invited to write this piece by a commercial…
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Manus Wong Issue 3: Haunt, August 2024 Manus Wong is a second-year English Literature major at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of mar/gins, a NUS student-run literary journal. In his freshman year, he founded Residential College 4’s literary club, OrcaStories, wherein he and his team published the college’s inaugural…
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Garden Dream
Yan Jing Issue 2: Vanishing, January 2024 COVID lockdown restrictions have just loosened. My parents and I begin to go on walks in secluded parks, doing our best to avoid large crowds. On this particular day, the sky is a dusky, lampshaded orange, and we’re on an empty back path somewhere in Hort Park I…
